Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, and More

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Anyone feeling like this over here?

 

[Station Grey]

There is goign to be a day people get tired of logic and final cut and what will apple be doing then.

Dunno... probably support Cubase, Audition, Pro Tools, Premiere and Resolve as currently?

 

[designerdave72]

Honest question, what would be a good use case for 96GB ram?

I only wished the Mac Studio had the option 96gb of ram

 

[Patchwork]

16" received a £300 price hike here in the UK, baseline 16" now at £2,699, which is $3,325 USD..

The 14” is up £250 in the UK, though wasn’t planning on changing my BTO 14” anyway. on a more general point if you don’t need the features of the new MacBook Pro it’s worth checking out the refurbished store where the M1 Pro 14” is £1,459 and the 16” is £1,839 (I assume US/Euro prices will have similar discounts).

 

[mdnz]

Anyone feeling like this over here?

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Nope.

 

[ilikewhey]

Anyone feeling like this over here?

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nope, absolutely no m1 pro/max owner cares about this incremental improvement.

 

[Megaman]

Apple offers $760 trade-in for the Fully loaded M1 Max MacBook Pro LMAO!

 

[Station Grey]

Honest question, what would be a good use case for 96GB ram?

Mainly for the person who really, really thinks they need 96GB.

 

[rcepek]

Damn You Apple, Here take my money

 

[dmr727]

Pretty much the expected update. Might help to pick up an M1 MBP at a rockstar price.

 

[Mr_Risin_Mojo]

2.399,00 € for base 14"... No thanks

 

[bobcomer]

Wowsers, expensive if you want a decent amount of RAM and ssd! And it appears they still wont take a Mac Studio as a trade in. I actually might have pulled the trigger on a 14" if I had some trade in value.

 

[ilikewhey]

Mainly for the person who really, really thinks they need 96GB.

m1 max 64gb ram owner here, even though i'm at 55gb usage, 96gb is just not necessary for my tasks.

 

[itfmac]

Anyone feeling like this over here?

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Not even slightly. The M1 Pro has never felt slow in anything I've ever done and the UK price is now bordering on unaffordable.

 

[0xjf]

Important note for the 14 inch: the battery test of up to 12 hours wireless web was conducted using the 12-core CPU model. So the 10-core model could be really great for battery life

 

[ilikewhey]

I can afford it. Apparently millions of others can as well.

No it doesn't. Inflation and currency exchanges are things. The base model in the U.S. costs the same as before. Some models cost less than the old ones.

It is. See the base Mac Mini and my answer above.

That's a good question. Probably lots of things.

Yes, although progress is being made with Linux.

Okay... Not all businesses need computers running Windows. Those that do can always run a server running Windows that computers can connect to with a remote desktop. Or just buy computers running Windows.

Hopefully people at Apple eat lunch.

Maybe sell computers that do other things than Logic and Final Cut...

just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should lol, if you are not gunning for 96gb ram, get the previous m1 gen at discount, this update is more or less a stop gag before m3 3nm comes out with REAL improvements

 

[Station Grey]

What an utter rip off in the UK, you would have to be a complete buffoon to buy one over an M1 version now.

Apple are out of their freaking minds, pure greed and I hope it comes back to bite them.

More and more I wonder if its truly worth it anymore, thankfully Europe isn't Apple obsessed like the US.

Depends how you look at it.

You could say the the entry model is now £250 more.

Or you could say that the 10-core 16-GPU core model with 16Gb/1Tb is now £50 cheaper, and with higher performance and greater efficiency.

 

[bobcomer]

also, surely Apple‘s ever insufficient cooling system can handle M2 Pro M2 Max in sustained (more than 10 min) CPU heavy load without throttling, right?

If you need that get a Mac Studio instead. I wanted to go the other way and go from a Studio to a 14" MBP, but the prices are bonkers. (with no trade in)

 

[Skoua]

Macbook Pro 16 starts at 2999€ in France.
I remember buying my first ever Macbook Pro 15 in 2008, it was 1799€...

 

[cardfan]

Who can afford this crap. They literally brought the production down to a single in-house chip and it costs more than ever.. this is all about profit profit profit. The SoC should be making things more affordable. What is wrong with this company. They pretend like they are the fastest machines in the universe. The GPU is still an internal GPU only useable on MacOS. This machine is not business class as it can't run Windows anymore. They are out to lunch. There is goign to be a day people get tired of logic and final cut and what will apple be doing then.

Not sure why you think in house chips are more affordable lol.

 

[tYNS]

Dunno... probably support Cubase, Audition, Pro Tools, Premiere and Resolve as currently?

Oh, software available on Windows.

 

[James Godfrey]

UK prices are absurd now… £2150/$2650 for the base 14” WOW!!!

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

16" received a £300 price hike here in the UK, baseline 16" now at £2,699, which is $3,325 USD..

Pretty in-line with the drop in value of GBP vs USD since October 2021. The pound is worth like 10% less than it was, compared to USD back then so a 10% increase on all new Apple products is to be expected. Could even be more because of how unstable things have been over the past six months in particular.

 

[RalfTheDog]

I was hoping it would support more than two active screens. Then again, that's why I have my desktops. It's not like a pack a room full of monitors when I travel.

Wonderful news! Hope to see HDMI 2.0 support in all new future Mac models as well.

That would be very bad. I would hope that when HDMI 5.3 is a thing, they would no longer be using HDMI 2.

Did I say I need it, though? Asking for scenarios where this gigantic amount of memory is a clear advantage. Video editing? Diffusion models?

Scientific computing mostly. Most of the things that would require that much RAM you would usually be doing on a desktop. Then again, That's a lot of RAM even for a laptop. I would be worried about pushing something in a laptop form factor that hard. If you max out the CPU/GPU for many days, you will likely have thermal issues.

It's so you buy the next step up. It is all marketing mumbo jumbo now. It really is so blatantly obvious they are greedy. Tim Cook has sealed the entire production and profit chain now. They see the entire life span profit of a machine now. They have made it so you need to do all your upgrading on initial buy (preventing third party upgrades). If they need arises for upgrading, you need to repurchase a new machine. Glued batteries and repairability to be apple exclusive. There is nothing a normal person can actually do long term to these machines that doesn't include apple being involved. Please stop supporting this greed.

Apple also has most of the development cost for the entire product line. Remember, the cost of the device is not just the cost of the components and putting it together. It is also the cost of designing the components.

I only wished the Mac Studio had the option 96gb of ram

That would be nice. I suspect the Mac Pro will have that option, if not more.

 

[ggx12]

At least it seems like Apple is trying?

I think it's their base policy to increase prices in europe by 10% to offset currency fluctuation. However, the good news is the refurb prices went down and the M2 Mini went down as well.